Sunday, March 18, 2007

solo? duo? duo 2?!!!

aku research kat web intel pasal bender neh.. raser nak pegang gak laptop baru... so aku review kat koran pasal beza bender neh.. ;)

Intel® Core™ Solo Processors

Features and benefits

Enhanced performance
The Intel Core Solo processor is the next generation mobile processor for power-optimized mobile processing. It is enhanced to handle today's demanding software applications—such as graphics-intensive games or serious number-crunching programs.
Power efficiency
The Intel Core Solo processor enables laptops with improved battery life for an enhanced mobility experience.+
A vibrant media experience
The Intel Core Solo processor delivers enhanced performance for today's demanding applications such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling, video editing, digital music, digital photography and gaming.
Smarter, more efficient designs
Intel® Smart Cache enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.
Intel® Centrino® mobile technology
The Intel Core Solo processor is a key ingredient of the Intel® Centrino® mobile technology platform.


Intel® Core™ Duo Processors

Features and benefits

Outstanding dual-core performance
With its two execution cores, the Intel Core Duo processor is optimized for multi-threaded applications and multitasking. You can simultaneously run multiple demanding applications such as graphics-intensive games or serious number-crunching programs - while downloading music or running virus-scanning security programs in the background.
Power efficiency
Demand for greater power efficiency in computing is on the rise from desktop to laptop PCs. With an Intel Core Duo processor, you get a balance of great dual-core computing capabilities and power savings. Its enhanced voltage efficiency supports cooler and quieter system designs as compared to traditional desktop and laptop PCs. And thanks to the innovative energy efficient technologies built-in, the Intel® Core™ Duo processor is able to transfer power only to those areas of the processor that need it, thereby enabling laptops to save power and desktops to have thinner, sleeker designs.
A vibrant media experience
The Intel Core Duo processor enables your Intel Viiv technology and Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology multimedia experience to be all the more vibrant. Featuring Intel® Digital Media Boost, the Intel® Core™ Duo processor enables accelerating technologies for applications such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling, video editing, digital music, digital photography and gaming. This is one of the key ingredients that help Intel Viiv technology and Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology to give you a truly rich multimedia experience.
Smarter, more efficient designs
The Intel Core Duo processor features Intel® Smart Cache which helps deliver a smarter and more efficient cache and bus design to enable enhanced dual-core performance, and power savings.
An essential ingredient in Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology
The Intel® Core™ Duo processor is Intel's first mobile dual-core processor and a key component of the new Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology platform.


Intel® Core™2 Processor

When launched later this year, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor will provide enhanced performance and energy-efficiency in mobile applications while bringing for the first time the benefits of energy-efficient performance to mainstream desktop computing. With its own unique brand name, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor, also to be launched later this year, will be Intel's highest performing desktop processor ever1 and the new first choice of gamers and multimedia professionals worldwide.

As with the Intel® Pentium® processor brand, use of the number "2" signals the arrival of the next generation of technology to the Intel® Core™ processor line. In order to be consistent with our current Intel Core processor naming, we are continuing to use "Duo" to creatively and effectively indicate Intel® dual-core technology.

Brand New and Improved

The new Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Extreme brands will have new logos which are consistent with the new Intel brand and corporate identity introduced earlier this year, yet visually distinctive in both design and coloring, to help easily identify these powerful state-of-the-art products as new and improved.

As a part of the Intel Inside® program, these new brands will begin appearing in advertising, at retail, online and on systems from the world's top computer manufacturers later this year. PC buyers will be able to shop by this processor brand name or through our three market-specific and tailored platform brands that deliver best-in-class wireless mobility, in-home entertainment and business productivity hardware and software.

Problem Icon Hitam Win 98

erm.. aku juper neh waktu gie tempat user... ingat virus.. spyware.. last².. hmmmm

Solution :

WINDOWS 98

1. Restart Windows in Safe mode. To do so, restart your computer, press
and hold down the CTRL key after your computer completes the Power On
Self Test (POST), and then choose Safe Mode from the Startup menu. For
more information about Windows 98 startup, see the following article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q178548
TITLE : No "Starting Windows 98" Message at Startup

2. Use Windows Explorer to remove the ShellIconCache file from the
Windows folder.

NOTE: You need to be able to view hidden files to see the ShellIconCache
file. To view hidden files in Windows 98, click Folder Options on the
View menu in Windows Explorer, click the View tab, click Show All Files,
and then click OK.

3. Restart your computer

MORE INFORMATION
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Windows caches icons in the ShellIconCache file for performance reasons.
The file's Hidden attribute is normally set.
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Schedule Task In Win XP


creternyer camneh.. aku nak wat cam cronjob (bahaser linux) tapik dalam windows... pueh memikirkan macam maner nak activekan schedule task neh.. akhirnya jumper solution darik satu laman web neh.. aku post kat bawah neh.. ;)

To set up a task that runs every 15 minutes, here are the steps:

1. Start->Control Panel->Scheduled Tasks->Add Scheduled Task.
2. Click Next.
3. Select any program (we’ll be replacing this so it doesn’t matter) and hit Next.
4. Name the task “MT Periodic Tasks”.
5. Select Perform This Task Daily and hit Next. Hit Next (accept the default start time/date).
6. If prompted, enter your username and password (twice for the password) and hit Next.
7. Check “Open advanced properties for this task” and hit Finish. The advanced properties will open.
8. Change the Run: box to read “perl run-periodic-tasks”.
9. Change the Start In: box to the name of the directory where your run-periodic-tasks script is (for example C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\tools).
10. Select the Schedule tab and click Advanced. Pick today’s date as the start date, and check Repeat Task. Set the Every boxes to whatever your repeat rate should be (for instance 15 and minutes). Check the “Duration” button, and set it to 23 hours and 59 minutes and click OK. This will run the task every day and repeat it every 15 minutes for 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours it will be a new day, and the task will start over — repeating every 15 minutes for another 24 hours. This part of the interface is especially unintuitive; somebody should make a new interface for Task Scheduler that actually makes sense to normal people. :-P
11. Change the start time to 15 minutes from now and click OK. If you are prompted again for your username and password, put them in and hit OK.

Your task will now run every 15 minutes until you disable or delete it.

Seting Automatic Task In *nix (crontab)

Arie neh aku nak setkan cronjob kat hosting. Script yang akan dicronkan php script. SO.. tercarik² gak camner nak setkan cronjob neh.. dan akhirnye.. aku juper instruction seperti kat bawah neh dalam satu forum:

as I have done, create a shell script, with the command:
lynx -dump http://www.website.co.uk/myscript.php


And then in the cron, simply put:

1 * * * * /path/to/shell/file/shell.sh
31 * * * * /path/to/shell/file/shell.sh


I think this will be the easiest way for you - but this will only work if the lynx browser is installed on your server.
Try from a command prompt:
whereis lynx

and see what response you receive ;)

Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP SP2

I mentioned before that Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off (and ironically, this can be done even without his permission) before starting work on the box. This is irritating and removes much of the productivity that Remote Desktop brings to Windows. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2

A much touted feature in SP2 (Service Pack 2) since then removed was the ability to do just this, have a user logged on locally while another connects to the terminal remotely. Microsoft however removed the feature in the final build. The reason probably is that the EULA (End User License Agreement) allows only a single user to use a computer at a time. This is (IMHO) a silly reason to curtail Remote Desktop's functionality, so we'll have a workaround.

Microsoft did try out the feature in earlier builds of Service Pack 2 and it is this that we're going to exploit here. We're going to replace termserv.dll (The Terminal Server) with one from an earlier build (2055).

To get Concurrent Sessions in Remote Desktop working, follow the steps below exactly:

1. Download the termserv.zip file below and extract it somewhere. Here

2. Reboot into Safe Mode. This is necessary to remove Windows File Protection.

3. Copy the termserv.dll in the zip to %windir%\System32 and %windir%\ServicePackFiles\i386. If the second folder doesn't exist, don't copy it there. Delete termserv.dll from the dllcache folder: %windir%\system32\dllcache

4. Merge the contents of Concurrent Sessions SP2.reg file into the registry.

5. Make sure Fast User Switching is turned on. Go Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change the way users log on or off and turn on Fast User Switching.

6. Open up the Group Policy Editor: Start Menu > Run > 'gpedit.msc'. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services. Enable 'Limit Number of Connections' and set the number of connections to 3 (or more). This enables you to have more than one person remotely logged on.

7. Now reboot back into normal Windows and try out whether Concurrent Sessions in Remote Desktop works. It should!

If anything goes wrong, the termserv_sp2.dll is the original file you replaced. Just rename it to termserv.dll, reboot into safe mode and copy it back.

The termserv.dl_ file is provided in the zip is for you slipstreamers out there. Just replace that file with the corresponding file in the Windows installation disks.

I've added in extra information from the comments below... thanks for all who researched! :-)

http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop <-- By vishnu